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<span class="top">The Book of Micah</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.</td>
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<td class="v">3:6</td>
<td>Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.</td>
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<td class="v">3:7</td>
<td>Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.</td>
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<td class="v">3:8</td>
<td>But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.</td>
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<td class="v">3:9</td>
<td>Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.</td>
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<td class="v">3:10</td>
<td>They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.</td>
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<td class="v">3:11</td>
<td>The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.</td>
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<td class="v">3:12</td>
<td>Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.</td>
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